I left England to win a high place in my profession, before I dared to win _her_.

I braved danger, and faced death.

I staked my life in the fever swamps of Africa, to gain the promotion that I only desired for her sake--and gained it.

I came back to give her all, and to ask nothing in return, but to rest my weary heart in the sunshine of her smile.

And her own lips--the lips I had kissed at parting--told me that another man had robbed me of her.